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blast
A colloquial and laboratory jargon term commonly used in assisted reproduction as a shorthand for blastocyst (a day 5 or 6 embryo). 
Grammatical category Noun
Field Cell biology
Level of specialization High
Definition source glosario de Fertilidad
Variants
Synonym
blast cell
Formal
Formal
cytoblast
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

blasto
blastocisto
Collocations
WITH VERBS
become | develop into a blast
WITH ADJECTIVES
transferred | implanted blast